868 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [April 1,

may hereafter be incurred by the Commissioners of Baltimore
county in executing the provisions of the aforesaid Acts of
the General Assembly, and supplements thereto, shall be
paid to the said County Commissioners by the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore, immediately upon the ascertainment of
the amount by the said Commissioners, and demand made
upon the said Mayor and City Council.''

Which was rejected.

The question recurring upon the amendment of Mr. Tuck,

It was adopted.

Mr. Davis submitted the following amendment :

Add the fellow in g section, to be known as "Section 9."

"Whereas, Large sums of money have been expended by
the County Commissioners of Baltimore county, without the
territory described in this Act, and proposed to be annexed
to the city of Baltimore, in the manner hereinbefore provided,
since the first day of January, 1865, to wit: in opening and
constructing roads and in building bridges and culverts, by
the Street Commissioners of said county, by virtue of several
Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, in laying out
streets and avenues, and marking and bounding the same;
and by the School Commissioners of said county, in purchas-
ing lots, and in building and repairing school houses; there-
tore

''Section 9. And be it enacted, That if the territory de-
scribed herein, and proposed to be annexed, should be an-
nexed to Baltimore city, then the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore, shall pay to the County Commissioners of Balti-
more county such amount of money as the said Mayor and
City Council and said County Commissioners may agree upon
as fair and equitable for the amounts that have been expended
since the first day of January, 1865., for opening and con-
structing roads, and building bridges and culverts, and for
laying out streets and avenues, and marking and bounding
the same, and for the purchase of lots, and building and re-
pairing school houses thereon ; and if the said Mayor and
City Council, and said County Commissioners, should not be
able to agree as to said amount to be paid, then the said
Mayor and City Council shall appoint one person, and said
County Commissioners one person, whose duty it shall be to
proceed, as soon as practicable, to adjust and determine the
amounts to be paid to said County Commissioners for the
aforesaid expenditures, and if the persons so appointed, should
not be able to agree upon the amount to be paid, then it shall
be the duty of the said persons to select a third person, who,
together with the two persons so appointed as aforesaid, shall
immediately proceed to adjust and determine the amount to